The main driving force behind the acrimonious Bitcoin Cash fork, due tomorrow, has threatened to crash the price of Bitcoin with a sell-off to fund his 'Satoshi's Vision' project.

Craig Wright, the man who – to the derision of many in the crypto community – claims to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto and pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has threatened to crash the price of 'his' headline cryptocurrency if miners support the Bitcoin Cash ABC project in the upcoming fork.

Tweeting ahead of the increasingly acrimonious split of the Bitcoin Cash protocol – itself a fork of the 'core' Bitcoin blockchain from August of 2017 – due tomorrow evening (c.5pm UET, 15th Nov 2018), Wright warned Bitcoin miners that, should they to show support for the Roger Ver/Jihan Wu (Bitmain)-backed Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCH) over his Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) project, he would be look to fund his side of any ensuing 'hash war' battle by selling off bitcoins. A lot of bitcoins, apparently.

To all BTC miners...

If you switch to mine BCH, we may need to fund this with BTC, if we do, we sell for USD and, well... we think BTC market has no room... it tanks.

On the one side, there's a group (Bitcoin ABC – which is generally being seen as the incumbent, and will retain the BCH acronym) that wants to add features to the Bitcoin Cash protocol in the upcoming, regularly scheduled, update – they happen to the BCH protocol around every six months, but haven't previously caused problems (we spoke about the last one, here).